Awareness raising activities of the NPM regarding its powers and duties, participation in conferences, domestic and international symposia, staff training In order to increase the awareness of the authorities who have subordinated units subject to NPM monitoring, regarding the prevention of torture and ill-treatment, the NPM members carried out, again this year, an extensive awareness raising activity. Over 130 such actions were carried out at: Professional Associations (Romanian College of Psychologists, Romanian National College of Social Workers, UNBR Bars), Ministry of Health; at all medical and pharmacy universities / medical faculties in Romania; Order of Nurses, Midwives and Medical Assistants in Romania; Ministry of Education and Research, Center for Public Health Human Resources; DGASPC (Ialomița, Maramureș, Bacău, Galați, Suceava, Botoșani, Arad, Vaslui); Străulești Social Services Complex within DGASPC Sector 1, Bucharest; Neuropsychiatric Recovery and Rehabilitation Centers for Adults with Disabilities (Urlați, Nedelea, Mitocul Dragomirnei, Suceava); Urlați Occupational Therapy Integration Center; Fântânele Social Services Complex; Ploiești University of Oil and Gas; Penitentiaries (Poarta Albă, Craiova, Tg. Jiu, Bacău, Focșani); Manor Care House for the Elderly, Prahova County; Nursing Home Sfânta Mânăstire Christiana, Bucharest; "Pasărea" Nursing Home - "Pasărea" Social Settlement; Home for the elderly “Zamfira Seniors House” Association, Lipănești locality; Strehaia Home for the Elderly; Drobeta Turnu-Severin Penitentiary – Vânjuleț Exterior Section; Gătaia Psychiatric Hospital; Home for the elderly “Salvați Bătrânii” Săucești - Bacău; Detention and Preventive Arrest Centers in Buzău, Călărași, Ialomița, Dâmbovița, Teleorman, Constanța, Tulcea, Teleorman, Ilfov, Hunedoara, Alba, Bihor, Bistrița-Năsăud, Brașov, Cluj, Covasna, Harghita, Hunedoara, Maram counties Sălaj, Satu Mare, Sibiu; Otopeni International Airport etc. NPM members participated (on a monthly or even weekly basis) in a series of webinars, meetings, conferences, symposia, organized at national and international level, for example: Webinars organized by the Association for the Prevention of Torture, with the following topics: Covid-19 & Monitoring of places of detention, Monitoring of places of detention and the Principle - Do no harm - from theory to practice, in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic, Monitoring psychiatric institutions during the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges and good practices; Combating torture and ill-treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic; Videoconferences I and II organized by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Fundamental and Human Rights in Vienna, on the topic of Monitoring Violence in Prisons; The final conference on Prison Monitoring Methodologies for National Preventive Mechanisms, organized online by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Associazione Antigone, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee; meeting with experts from the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA); The National Bioethics Conference, during which the material Ethical Challenges in the centers for the elderly in Romania was presented; Webinars organized by the National College of Social Workers in Romania, for example Community Social Assistance. Perspectives in times of pandemic. Internationally, the NPM has responded positively to requests from the South-Eastern Europe NPM Network, the Association for the Prevention of Torture, for example, by participating in surveys on monitoring places of detention during the pandemic. At the same time, it developed and sent informative materials that were included in each issue of the European NPMs Newsletter (developed by the Torture Prevention Unit, a newly established unit within the Directorate General of Human Rights and the Rule of Law of the Council of Europe), a publication that is developed and distributed to all NPMs in Europe and human rights organizations. The European Newsletter no. 7 (May-June 2020) included more information about Romania, such as the publication of the People's Advocate's annual report 20